William L. Doerler

Before joining the Subrogation Department, Bill was a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, where he handled defense matters including products liability, construction defect and premises liability cases. Bill’s experience on both sides of a lawsuit gives him a thorough understanding of defenses subrogation targets raise.

In addition to working in the Litigation Department, Bill also worked in the firm’s Appellate Group, where he successfully briefed and argued cases in state and federal court addressing a wide variety of issues, including medical malpractice, personal injury and worker's compensation. Bill’s appellate experience gives him unique insights into issues that arise at trial and how to preserve issues for appeal. While working in the Appellate Group, Bill was a co-editor of and contributor for the Court Crier. 

Prior to joining White and Williams, Bill worked for several years as a trial litigator. Before becoming a lawyer, Bill utilized his accounting degree by working for ten years as the Treasurer and Vice President of Finance for a construction-related company in the private sector.

Bill is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware but works on cases throughout the country utilizing the services of local counsel.

• Investigated the subrogation potential of a claim involving a ransomware attack that resulted, upon recovering the insured’s systems, in a programming error and damage to the insured’s manufacturing equipment
• Litigated issues related to the enforcement of subrogation waiver, limitation of liability and consequential damages clauses in a complex case against an alarm company that included both property damage and wrongful death claims
• Litigated a case against a fire suppression contactor whose suppression system failed, resulting in the insured’s restaurant being destroyed by a fire
• Handled an email spoofing claim that resulted in fraudulent wire transfers

• Defeated a Motion to Amend wherein the defendant sought to amend its answer to raise a defense based on an arbitration provision – calling for arbitration in Italy – in a contract between an Italian manufacturer of bakery equipment and the insured

• Secured partial summary judgment on the issue of liability in a ceiling collapse case against the contractor hired to install the ceiling

• Litigated a case against the designer and installer of a sprinkler system extension – under a fire spread theory - after a fire at a wax and oil manufacturer